The language of stories “Tear and joy of Grandpa” by Ivan Ican Ramljak in the Croatian language classes Cover Image

Jezik priča Suza i radost didova Ivana Ićana Ramljaka u nastavi hrvatskoga jezika
The language of stories “Tear and joy of Grandpa” by Ivan Ican Ramljak in the Croatian language classes

Author(s): Vesna Bjedov
Subject(s): Sociolinguistics, Cognitive linguistics, South Slavic Languages, School education, Sociology of Education
Published by: Slavistički komitet BiH
Keywords: imotski speech; teaching the Croatian language;

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the language of stories “Tear and joy of Grandpa” and explores the characteristics of Imotski speech. It also explores student’s understanding of lexicals in Ramljak’s stories and the role of linguistic peculiarities of Ramljak’ texts in Croatian language classes. The characteristics of Imotski speech have been determined by the analysis of language in Ramljak’s stories at lexical, phonological, morphological, syntactic and stylistic level. Seventh grade students did not fully understood Ramljak’s vocabulary. Making a discussion out of the selected linguistic features of Ramljak’s text, students have noticed their role in the literary text.

  • Issue Year: I/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 291-300
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Croatian